Subject Terms

Formats

legal documents

deeds

receipts (financial records)

tax records

land grants

partnership agreements

Biographical Note

Asahel R. Chilton & Reizen R. Chilton are listed in Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of Mississippi, volume 20 (January Term 1849), in the case of Comstock et al. v. Rayford et al.; it cannot be guaranteed that these are
the same men as listed in this collection.

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Chilton Collection, Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The
University of Mississippi

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Related Material

Resources at the University of Mississippi

For more Reconstruction era materials housed at the University of Mississippi Archives & Special Collections, see our Reconstruction subject guide.

Container List

1.1

Inventory

1.2

Accounts for Asahel & Pelatiah Chilton, 1837-1840

1.3.1

Indenture between C.A. and Margaritta Cook and R.R. Chilton for land in Oxford , 1857

1.3.2

Partnership agreement between A.R. Chilton and R.R. Chilton in a drug store, 1857

1.4

Texas land grant to T.H. Pearson, 1858

1.5

Deed of conveyance for land in Oxford from R.R. Chilton to Thomas H. Chilton, 1867